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MLB Team Report - Chicago Cubs - INSIDE PITCH Cubs pitchers are getting it done -- at the plate -- leading all National League staffs with six doubles, four homers and 19 RBIs. In Thursday's 8-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox, starter Travis Wood singled and hit a grand slam. According to Elias, the Cubs are the first NL team to record 19 RBIs in one calendar month. The last major league team with at least that many was the 1940 Detroit Tigers, who had 20 in August of that season.

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Chicago Cubs - INSIDE PITCH Cubs pitchers are getting it done -- at the plate -- leading all National League staffs with six doubles, four homers and 19 RBIs. In Thursday's 8-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox, starter Travis Wood singled and hit a grand slam. According to Elias, the Cubs are the first NL team to record 19 RBIs in one calendar month. The last major league team with at least that many was the 1940 Detroit Tigers, who had 20 in August of that season.

MESA, Ariz. - Kerry Wood was back in Cubs camp Tuesday, this time as a spring training instructor. "It was nice not having to run from field to field and doing all the drills," Wood said. "Obviously different, but nice to be back on the field and back in uniform and being around the guys again. " Manager Dale Sveum said Wood will bring his "knowledge and experience" for the younger pitchers. "Sometimes a young player will listen to a Kerry Wood before a Dale Sveum," he said with a laugh.

MESA, Ariz. - A familiar face was standing behind the pitching mounds at Fitch Park on Tuesday as the Chicago Cubs held their first official workout of the spring. But this time Kerry Wood was observing, not waiting for his turn to throw off one of the mounds. Wood, who retired last May, is in his first camp as a spring instructor. "It was nice not having to run from field to field and doing all the drills," Wood said. "Obviously different, but nice to be back on the field and back in uniform and being around the guys again.

When popular athletes retire, charity work can become a double-edged sword. On one hand, they have more time to dedicate to their cause that they didn't have when they were playing games and training. On the other, they may not have the same star power they had during their playing days now that they're out of the limelight and also no longer have the same relationships with the players and media they depend on to attend their charity events. Kerry Wood , so far, has proven to be an exception to this rule since he called it a day on his 14-year career in May. You wouldn't know the 1998 National League Rookie of the Year and two-time All-Star had retired from the response he received Friday when he was introduced at the Cubs Convention at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers (it was said to be one of the loudest ovations of the event)

I don't blame any Cubs fan for being as disappointed in Bob Brenly's departure as in the 101-loss season the team just suffered. The latter was expected. We have a much more intimate relationship with those behind the microphones for our baseball teams than the other sports. For six months, on an almost daily basis, baseball announcers become our companions. They are guests in our living rooms. Our cars. Our headphones. It makes sense that the phone lines have been burning up on sports radio since Brenly announced he's out Wednesday afternoon.

The Sports Xchange Wood wants Cubs' new bosses to embrace players of past On an otherwise lackluster Sunday, when the Cubs lost 6-3 to the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, the more interesting story came off the field. The Cubs staged an appreciation day for former longtime pitcher Kerry Wood, who retired in May but never got to say a formal goodbye to the fans. Most interesting in what Wood had to say to the media was that he'd like to see some former Cubs welcomed back into the fold, including right fielder Sammy Sosa.

Kerry Wood got his day at Wrigley Field on Sunday, and he spent part of it lobbying for the Cubs to bring Sammy Sosa back to the organization as something. Wait, why do the Cubs need to bring back the worst teammate in the world? OK, Sosa wasn't Milton Bradley, but Wood ought to know better because he knows Sosa. Heck, he supposedly busted up Sosa's boombox that was part of Sosa's being a lousy teammate, one who was a cancer in the clubhouse and who left that clubhouse early in ditching his teammates.